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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4656, 6 December 1883, Page 2

Me M'Eihone has lately been the principal figure in the New South Wales Assembly in scenes which do not reflect much credit on the Colonial Parliament. The other evening, in replying to the Minister of Mines, who had compared him to a blofr-fly that did not touch any~ thing unless it stank, Mr M'Eihone expatiated on the efforts be had made to smash up the Parkes party, and declared that but for him the present Government would not have been in poweri yet now they were sneaking out of an undertaking to pay him his East Sydney election expenses. vHe was interrupted by Mr Dibbs, the Colonial Treasurer, with the observation, " You proved yourself a liar on the floor of the House," whereupon he retorted " that he had never been guilty of forging a certificate or of abstracting a public document and not re* placing it." Further recriminations were cut short by calls to order. Sir .John Kobertson would seem to have relished the proceedings. The report shows that -he frequently interjected the remark, " "When rogues fall our."

"We are going fishing," said Mr Oldboy," and I want to be sure we're got all our things together." " Got a tent?" asked his partner. " Yes, I've got a tent ?" •'And a boat ?"--. " Yes; that's engaged." "Whisky?'?' « Lots of it." "Some pilot biscuit ? " " Yes; a whole box." •• Fire or six dozen of beer ? " " Yes." "Cigars?" " Hundreds of 'em." "Plenty of whisky?" "Yes." " Ham and canned meats?" " Yes." " A good lot of beer ? " •• You'll want some ice." " I hare that, and I hare lots of canned goods, plenty of beer and cigars, no end of whisky and bread, and everything i can possibly think of, and yet, it seems to me, I've left something. out." " Got your tackle, haven't you ? " '■By George 1" shouted Mr Oldboy, "you've hit it—fish-hooks and lines. We'll need some of them, won't we? J knew I had forgotten something,"